"At that time, our family conditions were better than those in the countryside, and he had a sense of superiority. In addition, he is the youngest son, and we spoil him so much that we spoil him. In addition, he was influenced by his father since he was a child, and he often mixed with some little hooligans in the town, so he slowly became oily and learned badly. ”

"He looks very much like his father, he is tall and has a handsome face, so in junior high school, he is good with female classmates. At that time, the teacher came to tell us that we didn't believe it yet. Later, in high school, he fell in love with the daughter of the tailor shop woman in the town. ”

Guo Fengping and the others were listening attentively, and a group of noisy children came around the door. Gui Xinhua said to Li Jianguo, who was sitting by the door, "This young man, you closed the door. ”

Li Jianguo closed the door. It can be seen that Gui Xinhua is very angry with her son's behavior, so she spoke in a somewhat resentful tone: "One night, this little girl actually did such an unseemly thing with that female classmate in that tailor shop. At first, we didn't know at all, but later, the female classmate became pregnant and was almost killed by her father. The teacher came to tell us, and we were all shocked. My old man was so angry that he wanted to beat him, but he stiffened his mouth and said, 'I am like you, so you can beat him.' If you hit me, you will hit yourself. So saying, the dead old man's hand softened. Xinhua also has an older brother and two older sisters, and they are both very good to this younger brother, and they hope that he can study hard and be admitted to university in the future to win glory for our Zhu family. ”

Professor Shen couldn't help but interject and said, "What do his brothers and sisters do?"

Gui Xinhua said: "His eldest brother is a demobilized soldier and now works in a factory in Xuzhou. The second sister married and went to Nanjing to work as a salesperson in a shopping mall. His wife married in our Willow Township and supported her family by growing vegetables. The conditions of several families are average, but they all know how to live a real life. It's this youngest son, but Xinhua's mind is thinking about something all day long, running around without landing. ”

Guo Fengping said with some urgency: "Auntie, what about him?"

Gui Xinhua continued: "Later, he just couldn't read, so he graduated from high school and didn't get admitted to university. But this kid, I don't know how to do it, he can't read, and his heart is very proud. He didn't feel comfortable going back to his hometown to farm, and he didn't want to learn a trade. We wanted to open a small shop for him, but he didn't have the heart. After wandering around this town for two or three years, we asked someone to get him into the county cotton mill and work as a mechanic. In the factory, he fell in love with a female textile worker. We didn't know it at all, and he made the woman's belly bigger. We hurriedly got them married. The house on the east side of the second floor was their wedding room. ”

Professor Shen said curiously, "Can we go up and have a look?"

Guo Fengping hurriedly said, "Let Auntie finish her words first, and then go up to see." ”

Gui Xinhua continued: "In the second year of marriage, they gave birth to a son. The small family is quite happy, and the young couple has lived a stable life for five or six years. But while they live, they began to do iniquity. When the two of them came back, they often chirped and quarreled. One said she had an improper relationship with a workshop director in the factory, and the other said he hooked up with a factory doctor in the factory. My daughter-in-law is not pretty, and Xinhua said that she has a relationship with the factory director, but I don't believe it. And the daughter-in-law said that he had a relationship with the factory doctor, and I was a mother, so I believed it a little. Because he was like his father when he was a child, he was romantic, and he said that he was eighty at the age of three. After such a quarrel, the two divorced, and the son was brought by my daughter-in-law. Now in his teens, I haven't seen him in years. This time, I heard Xinhua say that he drove to see his son and bought him a set of clothes. ”

Li Jianguo only interjected at this time: "He, there is still a little bit of humanity." ”

Professor Shen said, "No matter how evil a person is, there is also a good side. At the beginning of human beings, nature is good. Didn't you hear from my aunt? He was influenced by bad things when he was a child, and he became like this. ”

Gui Xinhua sighed and said:

"Alas, after the divorce, he quit his job and went to the sea to break out to do business. At first, he said that he was going to Shanghai, but then he went somewhere. But when he went to sea, he was 33 years old, and he settled in Shanghai a year later. Over the years, he has traveled to many places. First he resold old machinery, and later he started a clothing business. But he can run around and can barely make ends meet. Without capital and background, how can the business become bigger? His father used to sell meat, and he also had to have the capital to collect live pigs. ”

Guo Fengping said: "Yes, it is difficult to do business without capital. ”

"Anyway, in those years, he floated outside and often didn't come back. Even when they came back to see me, they came back silently like a thief, and went out without a sound. Gui Xinhua is still quite good at talking, and it can be seen that when she was young, she was also an outstanding woman, "As soon as he comes back, I will ask him, what do you rely on to survive by running around outside like this? Guess what he said? He said that a person always has his own strengths, and if he gives full play to these specialties, he can survive." He said, "I'm good-looking, I can speak well, that's my specialty." I said, you can make money by looking and talking? He said, "You don't understand that." These two things are the capital to make money. I can't think of how I can make money by looking and talking like this? If I asked him again, he just wouldn't tell me. It turned out that this is how he made money, and it really me off as an old woman. ”

Guo Fengping and Professor Shen both turned yellow and their chests rose and fell when they heard this. Gui Xinhua looked at them and said with guilt on her face: "Really, I'm sorry for you." My son is not good, and I, as a mother, am also responsible. But I don't have the money to pay you back. ”

Guo Fengping said: "We didn't come to ask you for money, we asked Gui Xinhua for it." When you are a mother, you can still control his heart? We can understand this, Auntie, don't be too sad. ”

Professor Shen said, "Auntie, take us up and see Gui Xinhua's wedding room." ”

So the aunt took them up. It is a large room with almost 30 square meters. The inside is simply decorated, with corrugated brick paving, gypsum board ceiling, and white latex paint painted on the wall. In the middle is a large bed, the quilt and pillows on the bed are new, and there is a set of new furniture next to the wall, which is a very good new house.

(End of chapter)